Clark M. Clifford Quotes

Our balance sheet provides us with the ability to act on investment opportunities in appropriate areas that diversify and broaden our portfolio, including the gas and energy sector.

All I'm trying to do is manage money and take care of my shareholders.

The Interros strategy toward various assets generally depends on the stage of their development and level of their maturity.

There are a lot of idiot fund managers out there who add no value to the process at all.

The only reason the stock market is doing so well is because of me. I've always been very good with money.

Traditionally, we think that people with ideas are innovators - that Silicon Valley is the world of ideas. But within the hedge-fund world, they believe that they are men of ideas - that the trade is unto itself one of ideas.

We know what we are. Our business is originating, distributing, and managing capital for individuals and institutions.

My job is to look after all our investments and ensure that we grow.

I take care of my positions when they come.

If I had to sum up my practical skills, I would use one word: survival. And operating a hedge fund utilized my training in survival to the fullest.

Hedge fund managers charge so much more than mutual fund managers; alpha is even harder to come by. They end up selling a variety of things beyond mere outperformance.

For resourceful tech founders, finding capital is rarely a problem; making the best use of it is another story. A few years slinging pepperoni pies and chicken wings - on tiny margins and with minimal investment - might not be the worst fiscal training.

One of the funny things about the stock market is that every time one person buys, another sells, and both think they are astute.

The ability to select stocks, manage them over time and know when to sell them is incredibly difficult, even for professional fund managers.

It's the company itself, but most of these mutual fund companies, the guy who runs the company is just a fact totem and the guy who runs the money is the power. But we really don't know who they are.

What I'm saying is that there are bargains right now, there are stocks right now that if you're shrewd enough, you will be able to buy them at the opening today and I you'll make money in a year from now.

The business end of business has never interested me.

Business is all about risk taking and managing uncertainties and turbulence.

I started a business with two guys I played with, Ronnie Lott and Harris Barton: Champion Ventures, it's a fund of funds. We have $400 million or so under management.

You can't manage Wall Street. Wall Street has its own viewpoints on everything. I have always believed, if you manage your business correctly, Wall Street will take care of itself.

Money management has been a profession involving a lot of fakery - people saying they can beat the market, and they really can't.

In my day job, I worry non-stop about making wise investments for long-term gains.

I create offbeat advice; I don't follow it. I rarely take third-party advice on my investments.

Ex-Fidelity mutual fund manager Peter Lynch was certainly brilliant in one respect: he knew to get out when the gettin' was good.

I'm a kibitzer with a broad portfolio.